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'Idol' judges say they're no crueler now
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070121/ap_en_tv/tv_american_idol"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070121/capt.carm10201210103.american_idol_carm102.jpg?x=130&y=86&sig=uLnhtwK17jbJ.DCt93oNJQ--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="'American Idol' judge Randy Jackson, center, laughs at a question as executive producer Ken Warwick, host Ryan Seacrest, and fellow judges Paula Abdul and Simon Cowell, from left, listen during a media presentation on the hit television show at the 2007 Fox Winter Press Tour, Saturday, Jan. 20, 2007, in Pasadena, Calif. (AP Photo/Rene Macura)" border="0" /></a>AP - "American Idol" judges Simon Cowell, Randy Jackson and Paula Abdul say they're no crueler than usual this year, and that people who audition should know what they're going to get.</p><br clear="all"/>
Chenoweth buoyant in Met performance
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070121/ap_en_mu/music_kristin_chenoweth"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070120/capt.nyr10301201659c.correction_music_kristin_chenoweth_nyr103.jpg?x=112&y=130&sig=Kv_9sH3uKfFHWDv4HSLSZA--" align="left" height="130" width="112" alt="In this photo released by the Metropolitan Opera, vocalist and Tony Award winning actress Kristin Chenoweth dons a New York Mets jersey during a performance on the 'Met' stage, Friday, Jan 19, 2007 in New York. (AP Photo/Metropolitan Opera, Ken Howard)" border="0" /></a>AP - Kristin Chenoweth has an outsized personality that shines best on stage, even one as vast as the Metropolitan Opera. And there she was Friday, giving her all in a solo concert backed by 12 sterling musicians, two dancers and, for several numbers, the Juilliard Choral Union.</p><br clear="all"/>
Bundchen blames families for anorexia
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070120/ap_en_ot/people_bundchen"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070120/capt.a6f1fb3d2fb64a59bf558240d06245e4.brazil_fashion_xsi117.jpg?x=88&y=130&sig=HTE77tIBMqFeE9l.4zoJgQ--" align="left" height="130" width="88" alt="Top model Gisele Bundchen wears a creation part of the Colcci fall-winter fashion collection during the Fashion Rio 2007, in Rio de Janeiro, Friday, Jan 19, 2007. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)" border="0" /></a>AP - Gisele Bundchen has entered Brazil's growing debate over anorexia, saying families are to blame — not the fashion industry.</p><br clear="all"/>
Winfrey cried over relative's 'betrayal'
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070120/ap_en_tv/people_winfrey"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070119/capt.nyet10901191658.people_richest_list_nyet109.jpg?x=100&y=130&sig=8RIUGPM8q6cDLFWbOrsnEQ--" align="left" height="130" width="100" alt="Oprah Winfrey is seen in this picture made Oct. 9, 2006, in New York. The talk-show titan, who's amassed $1.5 billion over the course of her impressive career, has bested 'Harry Potter' author J.K. Rowling and lifestyle guru Martha Stewart to take the No. 1 spot on Forbes.com's new list of 'The 20 Richest Women in Entertainment,' which was posted on the Web site Thursday, Jan. 18, 2007(AP Photo/Paul Hawthorne)" border="0" /></a>AP - Oprah Winfrey says in the February issue of her magazine that she cried for three days when a relative told the National Enquirer that Winfrey became pregnant at 14 and lost the baby after birth.</p><br clear="all"/>
McCarthy, Eggers up for critics awards
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070121/ap_en_ot/book_critic_awards"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070121/capt.2d71f83ae8374e97bcbaf8658070e6cc.book_critic_awards_nyol777.jpg?x=107&y=130&sig=LHYACQHBUVvKB.Hk85ldkQ--" align="left" height="130" width="107" alt="Author Dave Eggers talks to readers at City Lights Bookstore in San Francisco in this April 2, 2001, file photo. Eggers, Cormac McCarthy and Richard Ford are among the finalists for the 33rd annual National Book Critics Circle prize. (AP Photo/Susan Ragan)" border="0" /></a>AP - Acclaimed novels by Cormac McCarthy, Richard Ford and Dave Eggers, all passed over last fall for the National Book Awards, were among the finalists announced Saturday for the 33rd annual National Book Critics Circle prize.</p><br clear="all"/>
"Sunshine" a surprise winner at producers awards
(Reuters)
Reuters - Comedy "Little Miss Sunshine" was
the surprise winner at an influential awards ceremony in
Hollywood on Saturday, making the low-budget film a formidable
contender heading into the Oscar race.
Chenoweth buoyant in Met performance
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070121/ap_en_mu/music_kristin_chenoweth"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070120/capt.nyr10301201659c.correction_music_kristin_chenoweth_nyr103.jpg?x=112&y=130&sig=Kv_9sH3uKfFHWDv4HSLSZA--" align="left" height="130" width="112" alt="In this photo released by the Metropolitan Opera, vocalist and Tony Award winning actress Kristin Chenoweth dons a New York Mets jersey during a performance on the 'Met' stage, Friday, Jan 19, 2007 in New York. (AP Photo/Metropolitan Opera, Ken Howard)" border="0" /></a>AP - Kristin Chenoweth has an outsized personality that shines best on stage, even one as vast as the Metropolitan Opera. And there she was Friday, giving her all in a solo concert backed by 12 sterling musicians, two dancers and, for several numbers, the Juilliard Choral Union.</p><br clear="all"/>
'Barney Miller' officer Ron Carey dies
(AP)
AP - Ron Carey, an actor best known for his work as a cocky, height-challenged policeman on the 1970s TV comedy "Barney Miller," has died. He was 71.
"Idol" judges, producer deny show is meaner
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070121/media_nm/fox_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070121/2007_01_20t180853_450x351_us_fox.jpg?x=130&y=101&sig=wdPzgsWX0_v3ckwTnnn2_g--" align="left" height="101" width="130" alt="American Idol judge Simon Cowell (L) and girlfriend Terri Seymour pose with Idol judge Randy Jackson (R) as they arrive at the American Idol television show in Hollywood in this May 24, 2006 file photo. Days after the hugely successful return of 'American Idol' to the airwaves, the Fox network's chief programmer on Saturday shrugged off complaints from viewers the hit talent show had grown too mean-spirited. (Fred Prouser/file/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Days after "American Idol"
stormed back onto the airwaves, the judges and producers of the
hit talent show joined a top Fox TV executive in shrugging off
viewer complaints the series has grown too mean-spirited.</p><br clear="all"/>
"Making the Band" Idol Joins Broadway's 'Hairspray'
(Playbill)
Playbill - Ashley Parker Angel makes his Broadway debut as high school heartthrob Link Larkin in Broadway's Hairspray Jan. 19 at the Neil Simon Theatre.
"Sunshine" a surprise winner at producers awards
(Reuters)
Reuters - Comedy "Little Miss Sunshine" was
the surprise winner at an influential awards ceremony in
Hollywood on Saturday, making the low-budget film a formidable
contender heading into the Oscar race.
'Barney Miller' officer Ron Carey dies
(AP)
AP - Ron Carey, an actor best known for his work as a cocky, height-challenged policeman on the 1970s TV comedy "Barney Miller," has died. He was 71.
Russian jailed in L.A. for stalking actress Duff
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/movies/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070121/film_nm/duff_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070121/2007_01_20t221135_450x300_us_duff.jpg?x=130&y=86&sig=iWDLjlophkZo7FR0KJoITQ--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Actress Hilary Duff arrives at the New York premiere of 'Material Girls' at the Chelsea West Cinema in New York City in this August 14, 2006 file photo. An 18-year-old Russian immigrant has been sentenced to four months in a Los Angeles jail for stalking Duff. (Eric Thayer/file/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - An 18-year-old Russian immigrant
has been sentenced to four months in a Los Angeles jail for
stalking actress-singer Hilary Duff.</p><br clear="all"/>
Sundance Abu Ghraib film shows America's dark side
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/movies/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070120/film_nm/sundance_abughraib_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070121/2007_01_20t181653_450x388_us_sundance_abughraib.jpg?x=130&y=112&sig=Bm3hlWk7nIz2kFubigjdQw--" align="left" height="112" width="130" alt="Rory Kennedy, director of the HBO documentary film 'Ghosts of Abu Ghraib', poses during a photo session at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah January 19, 2007. Kennedy's film, which premieres at Sundance, gives an inside look into the abuses at the Iraqi prison using interviews with perpetrators, witnesses and victims. (Fred Prouser/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - When documentary film maker
Rory Kennedy wanted to make a movie about why ordinary people
commit extraordinary acts of evil, the images of U.S. soldiers
torturing detainees at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison kept coming
back to haunt her.</p><br clear="all"/>
Changes planned to film-ratings system
(AP)
AP - Hollywood's movie-ratings system, which critics call a secretive process that leaves filmmakers in the dark, will implement changes to make it more open and understandable to parents and filmmakers, its overseers said.
Sundancing with the Stars...and Screech
(E! Online)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/movies/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/eonline/20070120/en_movies_eo/56164a7f_d3f54189_b305_81b08d60efdb"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/eonline/20070121/capt.f5d42956bdf89f991ca023bb7a4a77db.jpg?x=130&y=93&sig=sQkWUo3qbJI_hs5AfWgDhg--" align="left" height="93" width="130" alt="Sundancing with the Stars...and Screech(E! Online)" border="0" /></a>E! Online - PARK CITY—The snow might be coming down hard here, but there's enough star wattage and hype to keep things sizzling at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival.</p><br clear="all"/>
Jail for teen accused of stalking Duff
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/movies/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070120/ap_en_mo/people_hilary_duff"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070120/capt.ny12201200345.people_hilary_duff_ny122.jpg?x=93&y=130&sig=UlRUFUylChM0vCKLxYJDag--" align="left" height="130" width="93" alt="Hilary Duff attends the Zac Posen spring/summer 2007 fashion show in New York, in this Sept. 14, 2006 file photo. A teenager was sentenced to 117 days in jail Friday, Jan. 19, 2007 after pleading no contest to stalking Hilary Duff. A Superior Court judge also ordered 18-year-old Maksim Myaskovskiy to serve five years probation. (AP Photo/Paul Hawthorne, file)" border="0" /></a>AP - A teenager was sentenced to 117 days in jail Friday after pleading no contest to stalking Hilary Duff.</p><br clear="all"/>
Sundance docs draw drama from actors
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/movies/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070120/ap_en_mo/film_sundance_dramatized_docs"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070120/capt.utdb16501200722.sundance_film_festival_the_ten_utdb165.jpg?x=130&y=89&sig=zypNIxa0RJv6CqXXHU8q0A--" align="left" height="89" width="130" alt="From left, producer Jonathan Stern, actor Paul Rudd, director David Wain, and screenwriter Ken Marino arrive for the screening of 'The Ten,' at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, Friday, Jan. 19, 2007. (AP Photo/Kevork Djansezian)" border="0" /></a>AP - The talking heads in some documentaries at the Sundance Film Festival are not just real people recollecting real events.</p><br clear="all"/>
Special-effects worker hurt on movie set
(AP)
AP - Fire officials canceled Friday's shoot for a new Tom Hanks movie after a special-effects assistant was critically injured when a simulated stinger missile exploded.
"Sleepwalkers" exhibit projected on NY's MOMA
(Reuters)
Reuters - Never has working nights in New York
City been so arty.
Chenoweth buoyant in Met performance
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/music/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070121/ap_en_mu/music_kristin_chenoweth"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070120/capt.nyr10301201659c.correction_music_kristin_chenoweth_nyr103.jpg?x=112&y=130&sig=Kv_9sH3uKfFHWDv4HSLSZA--" align="left" height="130" width="112" alt="In this photo released by the Metropolitan Opera, vocalist and Tony Award winning actress Kristin Chenoweth dons a New York Mets jersey during a performance on the 'Met' stage, Friday, Jan 19, 2007 in New York. (AP Photo/Metropolitan Opera, Ken Howard)" border="0" /></a>AP - Kristin Chenoweth has an outsized personality that shines best on stage, even one as vast as the Metropolitan Opera. And there she was Friday, giving her all in a solo concert backed by 12 sterling musicians, two dancers and, for several numbers, the Juilliard Choral Union.</p><br clear="all"/>
"Idol" judges, producer deny show is meaner
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/music/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070121/music_nm/fox_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070121/2007_01_20t180853_450x351_us_fox.jpg?x=130&y=101&sig=wdPzgsWX0_v3ckwTnnn2_g--" align="left" height="101" width="130" alt="American Idol judge Simon Cowell (L) and girlfriend Terri Seymour pose with Idol judge Randy Jackson (R) as they arrive at the American Idol television show in Hollywood in this May 24, 2006 file photo. Days after the hugely successful return of 'American Idol' to the airwaves, the Fox network's chief programmer on Saturday shrugged off complaints from viewers the hit talent show had grown too mean-spirited. (Fred Prouser/file/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Days after "American Idol"
stormed back onto the airwaves, the judges and producers of the
hit talent show joined a top Fox TV executive in shrugging off
viewer complaints the series has grown too mean-spirited.</p><br clear="all"/>
'Idol' judges say they're no crueler now
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/music/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070121/ap_en_mu/tv_american_idol"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070121/capt.carm10201210103.american_idol_carm102.jpg?x=130&y=86&sig=uLnhtwK17jbJ.DCt93oNJQ--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="'American Idol' judge Randy Jackson, center, laughs at a question as executive producer Ken Warwick, host Ryan Seacrest, and fellow judges Paula Abdul and Simon Cowell, from left, listen during a media presentation on the hit television show at the 2007 Fox Winter Press Tour, Saturday, Jan. 20, 2007, in Pasadena, Calif. (AP Photo/Rene Macura)" border="0" /></a>AP - "American Idol" judges Simon Cowell, Randy Jackson and Paula Abdul say they're no crueler than usual this year, and that people who audition should know what they're going to get.</p><br clear="all"/>
Indies aim to grab share of online sales
(AP)
AP - Independent record labels behind artists like The White Stripes, Deep Purple and Arctic Monkeys announced a global deal Saturday to pool access to their catalogs, seeking to grab a bigger share of digital music sales from the major record companies.
Independent music labels form joint license agency
(Reuters)
Reuters - The world's independent music
sector which has produced such artists as the Arctic Monkeys,
has grouped together to launch an agency to secure licensing
deals with emerging media such as MySpace and YouTube.
James Brown's body in undisclosed spot
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/music/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070120/ap_en_mu/brf_james_brown"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070116/capt.nyet18101161449.people_brown_nyet181.jpg?x=101&y=130&sig=koAXNTzrrJyjUutUm_khiA--" align="left" height="130" width="101" alt="In a file photo singer James Brown poses for photographs at the Kennedy Center on Dec. 7, 2003 in Washington. Brown's will, which was read last week and excludes his partner, Tomi Rae Hynie, and their 5-year-old son, was drawn up 10 months before the child's birth and more than a year before their marriage,the The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle reported Tuesday,Jan. 16, 2007. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)" border="0" /></a>AP - The Godfather of Soul's body has been moved from a temporary resting place in his home, but his attorney isn't saying where.</p><br clear="all"/>
Mamas and Papas member dead at 66
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/music/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070120/ap_en_mu/obit_doherty"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070120/2007_01_19t174638_450x342_us_mamaspapas_doherty.jpg?x=130&y=98&sig=Cs1t3owJqEER0R8qlZqqDQ--" align="left" height="98" width="130" alt="Denny Doherty at New York's Waldorf Astoria Hotel in a file photo. Doherty, a member of the 1960s folk-rock group the Mamas and the Papas, has died at age 66, Canadian media reported on Friday. (File/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>AP - Denny Doherty, one-quarter of the 1960s folk-rock group the Mamas and the Papas, known for their soaring harmony on hits like "California Dreamin'" and "Monday, Monday," died Friday at 66.</p><br clear="all"/>
Lawsuit involving rapper death dismissed
(AP)
AP - A judge threw out a defamation lawsuit by a man who claimed Fox Television and a hip-hop magazine falsely accused him of involvement in the unsolved murder of rapper Notorious B.I.G.
Brit pop star Allen won't change for America
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/music/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070120/music_nm/lily_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070120/2007_01_20t022538_278x450_us_lily.jpg?x=80&y=130&sig=AM94puR1Krl705kyNN99og--" align="left" height="130" width="80" alt="Singer Lily Allen is shown arriving at the GQ Man of the Year awards in London, in this September 5, 2006 file photo. Allen knows precisely where she was when she first realized her 'Smile' single was taking off in the United Kingdom: on the Internet. (Luke MacGregor/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Pop singer Lily Allen knows
precisely where she was when she first realized her "Smile"
single was taking off in the United Kingdom: on the Internet.</p><br clear="all"/>
Epitaph Records marks 25 years as indie force
(Reuters)
Reuters - Spend a little time with Brett
Gurewitz, guitarist for Bad Religion and founder of Epitaph
Records, and it becomes clear that there are two distinct eras
in his label's 25-year history.
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